General Awareness Questions | RBI GRADE "B" AND NICL AO 2017 | 27.05.2017

1. Name the institute/organisation that has developed a technique that types Braille in real time and helps deaf-blind people "watch" television without intermediaries. 

a) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
b) University of Cambridge
c) Stanford University
d) University of Pennsylvania
e) None of these

2. A school in this city has decided to set up an environment-friendly toilet made of plastic bottles and other materials.
a) Kochi
b) Jamshedpur
c) Jaipur
d) Nainital 
e) None of these

3. Who was re-elected as the President of Iran?
a) Ebrahim Raisi
b) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
c) Hassan Rouhani
d) Mohammad Khatami
e) None of these

4. Which Indian won the 2017 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) award in the Environmental Engineering category?
a) Prashant Ranganathan
b) Sairandi Sathyanarayanan
c) Pratik Naidu
d) Sahithi Pingali
e) None of these

5. Who was appointed as Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Operations)?
a) Satish Dua
b) PN Pradhan
c) Subhash Bhamre
d) N S Rathore
e) None of these

6. Which Bollywood actress was awarded the UK International Humanitarian Award for her philanthropic work in India and worldwide?
a) Deepika Padukone
b) Madhuri Dixit
c) Twinkle Khanna
d) Jacqueline Fernandez 
e) None of these

7. Donald Trump, during his speech at the Arab Islamic-American Summit, called for the international isolation of which Muslim country?
a) Iran 
b) Sudan
c) Yemen
d) Syria
e) None of these

8. Which celestial object was used by the astronomers to create the first large-scale map of the universe?
a) Star clusters
b) Comet
c) Asteroid
d) Quasars
e) None of these

9. What is the 2017 theme of UN’s International Day for Biological Diversity?
a) Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism
b) Sustaining People and their Livelihoods
c) Water and Biodiversity
d) Convention on Biological Diversity
e) None of these

10. Which Union Minister has been handed over the additional charge of the environment ministry after the passing of Anil Madhav Dave?
a) Uma Bharati
b) Harsh Vardhan 
c) Smriti Irani
d) Nitin Gadkari 
e) None of these

ANSWER
1. (a) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
2. (b) Jamshedpur
3. (c) Hassan Rouhani
4. (a) Prashant Ranganathan
5. (b) PN Pradhan
6. (d) Jacqueline Fernandez 
7. (a) Iran 
8. (d) Quasars
9. (a) Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism
10. (b) Harsh Vardhan